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White box - Museum
of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2008-
Groleger Arhitekti, Ljubljana
Renderings : Lidija Dikanovic

Architecturally challenging was the restoration of the protected historic
structure of. the ex army barracks area built in the 19th century which
has served the military government in the past, and is intended to be
used for art in the future providing exhibition, storage and office spaces.
The key purpose of the idea was not the art work itself but the observer
and his reaction towards art placed in a public space in which he enters
a scene of a play, a stage, where the variability results in new experiences
and aspects of viewing.
It was never intended to define the added volume as a building in the
true sense of the word - it's more like an artistic product, a hollow
sculpture with a dynamic character, a »room« inside a big
house representing the whole area of the Metelkova cultural center, therefore
the borders between inside and outside are wiped out.
Looking for a fresh approach to classical elements, the design offers
a new interpretation: six columns are replaced by vertical gaps sealed
with a glass surface, the space in between is replaced by six repetitive
vertical volumes of reinforced concrete.

The addition to the western façade must allow further development
of the game »Division - Multiplication - Addition Subtraction«.
Box is a synonym for the added volume of the museum/exhibition space.
White color stands for virgin coldness and is a metaphor for purity -
fullness and emptiness at the same time. White colour transforms into
light if we are thinking about the building as a spatial object, however
if we are looking at whiteness as something two-dimensional - we observe
the color.
The new facility is a combination of white and reality realism
and minimalism.
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